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��f Irkl'�i�i;:ti 38. LIVING WAGE AND f2ESPONS�I3LE PI1F31.,1C SPENDING lZ�GU�.A... �Gl�� 2 c�f5 City contractor means a for-profit entity or a 501(c} entity that has a city contract. City contract is defined as a contract for services with the city valued at one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) or more; or a subcontract valued at one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.�0) or more for providing part or all of the services covered by another entity's contract with the city valued at one hundred thousand dollars (�i100,��[7.00} or more. City business subsidy is defined as a grant, contribution of personal property, real property, the principal amount of a loan at rates below those commercially available to the recipient, any reduction or deferral of any tax or any fee, any guarantee of any payment under any loan, lease, or other obligation, or any preferential use of government facilities given to a business valued at one hundred thousand doilars ($10Q,OOfl.00) or more with the intent or end result of creating or retaining jobs for that business. City business subsidy recipient means a for-profit entity or a 5d1(c} entity that receives a city business subsidy. Job readiness and training services means services whose primary purpose and intent is to help individuals establish a stable work history by addressing the social and economic barriers to employability, including training, apprenticeship, and adequate day care. Multi-use project means a project that includes units of housing and commercially owned or leased units. Responsible labor relations are defined as neutrality on union organizing, providing a complete and accurate list of names and addresses of employees, reasonable access to employees and facilities during non-working periods, voluntary recognition based on a card check demonstrating that a union represents a majority of employees in a bargaining unit, and binding arbitration on the first contract. Sole source means a source of products or services that is the only viable market option for the city. (2005-Or-103, � 1, 11-4-05) 38.40. Living wage.(a� Paymentofliving wage andreceipt ofbusiness subsidy. (1) A city contract for services must require city contractors to pay an hourly wage that is at least the living wage for the duration of the contract to employees of the city contractor for hours worked by the employees on the city contract. lf a city contract is subject to wage requirements under a collective bargaining agreement, the city contractor shall pay the wage under the collective bargaining agreement subject to the requirements set forth in subsection (c) below. (2) It is a city goal that one (1) living wage job be created out of every twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) of city business subsidy. A recipient of a city business subsidy must enter into a city business subsidy agreement with the city that includes a description of the subsidy, goals for the number of jobs created ar�dlor retained, and wage goals for any jobs created andlar retained. In the agreement, the city's department of planning and economic development must negotiate the minimum number of required living wage jobs to be created by the business subsidy recipient. If the number of required jobs is less that the city's goal, the department of planning and economic development must supply written reasons for not meeting the city's goal to the city council. (3) City bond financing is subject to the requirements of this chapter to the extent the intent of the bond financing is to create jobs and the financing results in a net economic benefit to recipient greater than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00). This benefit must exceed that to which the recipient could have obtained in the capital markets. — � � — — �. Frrl1r^��frl-r�rt�+�1•.t��vrti•er�tl�-c�+�� irvr.r]• I